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A view of the outdoor roof patio at One Congress, a 43-story, 1 million-square-foot office tower that's the new headquarters of State Street Corp. and InterSystems, a medical software and data management company. Law firm K&L Gates will also have an office there.

One Congress, Boston’s newest skyscraper, makes its debut

State Street Corp. will eventually occupy 27 floors across the 43-story, 1 million-square-foot skyscraper, and law firm K&L Gates and software company InterSystems will also call the tower home.

Plagued with delays, BPS bathroom renovations are creating friction with the state and disruptions for students

The delays have morphed into one of the biggest flashpoints between the state and Boston Public Schools over the pace of district improvement efforts.

MBTA was slow to repair or replace standpipe systems used to put out fires

In written statements, the T acknowledged “deficiencies in our standpipe inspection program” and vowed to improve.

United Auto Workers justifies wage demands by pointing to CEO pay raises. So how high were they?

CEO pay has ballooned for decades, while wages for ordinary workers have lagged. But did the Big Three chief executives really get 40% pay increases? Not exactly.

Analysis: The battle over electric vehicles is central to the United Auto Workers strike

Brigham and Women’s doctor works to broaden global access to neurosurgery

Leading experts in brain surgery convened in Boston to discuss bridging international gaps in care.

Thousands without power, 1 dead after Atlantic storm Lee pummels New England and Maritime Canada

Atlantic storm Lee has made landfall in Nova Scotia, Canada, at near-hurricane strength with sustained winds of 70 miles per hour.

See where power is out in Mass. and elsewhere

Alex Speier | Minor Details

Was Chaim Bloom’s reshaping of the Red Sox farm system a success?
The Sox' prospect list — and its player development strategy — looks radically different from the beginning of Bloom's tenure.

Mike Doten and Amy Robb are part of a group of residents of Cloudland Road who persuaded the town of Pomfret to close the road during the height of foliage season.

Around New England with Kevin Cullen

On one of Vermont’s most idyllic roads, fed-up locals say no more to the leaf peepers

Residents convinced their town to close the road for three weeks at the height of foliage season to prevent social media-inspired tourists from clogging it.

Regular bouts of deadly heat are coming sooner than expected
As Massachusetts swelters in a wave of oppressive heat, a new study shows that hundreds of millions of people around the world could be regularly exposed to heat that exceeds the limit of humans’ ability to survive.

As climate warming drives more extreme weather, ‘everything we care about is on the line’

Dolphins at Patriots, 8:20 p.m.

The Patriots are getting ready for ‘Sunday Night Football’ against the Dolphins. Follow along.
The Globe will be offering live updates and analysis throughout pregame, during the game, and in the aftermath.

Four significant challenges the Patriots face ahead of Sunday’s game against Miami Dan Shaughnessy: Staying optimistic that the Patriots will beat the Dolphins, and other thoughts

Hispanic Heritage Month

Latinx Heritage Month kicks off with fiesta on City Hall Plaza
The city's Fiesta en La Plaza series features events poetry to salsa, from now until Oct. 14.

Is it too soon to have another child?

I’m barely divorced.

Who was Peter Faneuil? A Bostonian, merchant, philanthropist — and slave trader.
Most Bostonians know little about the man for whom Faneuil Hall is named, who enriched himself by trafficking in human beings. Should knowing that history change the way the city remembers him?

Share your thoughts on Peter Faneuil: Merchant prince, philanthropist, slave trader

Peter Faneuil was an active trafficker who financed voyages from Boston to West Africa to purchase hundreds of slaves. And he kept at least five slaves to serve his own household.

Watch | Boston Globe Today: How and why we compiled the history of Peter Faneuil

Matt Chapman doubled twice on Sunday, the second of which walked off the Sox.

Blue Jays 3, Red Sox 2

Rafael Devers’s game-tying homer isn’t enough as Red Sox are walked off by Blue Jays again, swept on the road

Devers tied the game in the ninth inning with the Sox down to their last strike, but Toronto put things away quickly in the bottom of the frame.

Rory Coffey looked over the remains of an encampment at Franklin Park while combing the area for used syringes.

Proposal for drug rehab and homeless shelter in Franklin Park prompts clash of progressive values

Supporters of the project argue that lives hang in the balance, but opponents argue that the plan will simply transfer the chaos at Mass. and Cass to the park.

Businessman Calvin L. Butts, Jr., has hosted political fundraisers at his East Chop home for Black office-seekers.

On tony Martha’s Vineyard, a center of Black political power grows

Despite the island's association in popular culture with white elites, its rich Black history, especially in and around Oak Bluffs, has made it a growing center of Black political power.

A Beautiful Resistance: Claiming land and water on Martha’s Vineyard

Opinion

An illustration based on a carte de visite of Harriet Tubman from 1868 or 1869 and an undated photo of Louisa May Alcott.

IDEAS | CRAIG FEHRMAN

Girls gone wild — Harriet Tubman, Louisa May Alcott, and the freedoms they found outdoors

Harvard historian Tiya Miles on how some of American history’s most remarkable young women forged their truest selves beyond the confines of home.

Biden boasts that he has cut the deficit — even as the deficit streaks upward

Massachusetts’ 351 health departments means inefficiency — and unfairness

Basketball style that dazzles on — and off — the court

Negotiating, or defending, our way through the ‘security dilemma’

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Hispanic Heritage Month

Veronica Robles (center), a Boston-based Mariachi singer, with Cassandra McDonald (left) and Nicole Edgecomb (right), is slated to perform at the City of Boston’s Fiesta en la Plaza.

Nine ways to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month in Boston

Dancing at Havana Club

My night at Havana Club, the heart of salsa and bachata dancing in Cambridge

Four girls at an athletic field in Roxbury, at a recreational sporting event sponsored by La Alianza Hispana.

IDEAS | OMAR VEGA

Rarely seen snapshots of Latino Boston

Jorge Arroyo behind the scenes at the Booth Theatre at Boston University.

A lighting designer shines a spotlight on the lack of diversity backstage

More recent News

Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner removed from Rock Hall leadership after controversial comments
Wenner has been removed from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation’s board of directors after making comments that were seen as disparaging toward Black and female musicians.

World War I-era plane crashes during museum event in Stow

The pilot, the lone occupant of the aircraft, did not report any injuries and had removed himself from the plane by the time first responders arrived.

‘We dodged a tragedy today’: Cohasset police officer escapes uninjured as ‘giant tree’ falls on cruiser
The officer was not injured, police said, and the cruiser was “wrecked beyond repair.”

Sweet news for cranberry growers as India slashes tariffs on the Mass.-grown fruit
The cuts are expected to boost exports to the South Asian country, which is a growing market for the tart red berry.

Donald Trump’s GOP rivals try to attract social conservatives in Iowa at an event he skipped
Some of Donald Trump’s top Republican rivals addressed a large, influential gathering of Iowa evangelical Christians on Saturday night.

Boebert apologizes for vaping in a Denver theater
Representative Lauren Boebert said she “genuinely did not recall vaping that evening” when she told her campaign to issue a statement denying she had done so.

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Beth Teitell | Commentary

The real grandparents of Washington, D.C.: The reality show no one wants

As Biden, McConnell, and other politicians are blasted as "too old," is ageism splashing back on civilians?

After a long pause, Regattabar’s reopening brings jazz back to Harvard Square
Three and a half years after it was forced to close at the outset of the pandemic, a pillar of the local jazz scene is making its re-entry Friday ahead of what promises to be a robust season.

Larry Edelman | Trendlines

Dana-Farber blindsided Brigham and Women’s. The blowback will be strong.
Brigham leaders were sure they had a deal to extend their partnership with the famed cancer institute. Then Dana-Farber bolted.

Now that a popular cold medicine has been found ineffective, what should sick people do?
After an FDA advisory panel found that an ingredient in many cold medicines does not work, some doctors say that steam, rest, and hydration are the best remedies anyway.

Culture & Lifestyle

Test yourself to see how well you know your New England campus novels

From left: Carly Zien, Amy Resnick, Will Lyman, and Joshua Chessin-Yudin in "Prayer for the French Republic" at the Huntington.

In the Huntington’s ‘Prayer for the French Republic,’ antisemitism hits home, again

Carol Sloane at the Newport Jazz Festival, as seen in the film "Sloane: A Jazz Singer."

In a documentary of her life, singer Carol Sloane receives her overdue applause

The spreadsheet, I told myself, was the key to optimizing my reading life, my version of a pro athlete’s high speed camera.

I tracked my reading with the obsessiveness of a pro athlete. It did not go well.

Special Projects

Photo Illustration

Boston thrives off the dreams of young people. But can they make it here?

Baby boomers and Gen Xers benefited from economic conditions that do not exist for millennials. And by many measures, the path ahead for Gen Z is even more fraught.

Boston, MA—12/14/2022 - Commuters wait for the T to arrive at Ruggles Station. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

Boston doesn’t work if the T doesn’t work

With the MBTA engulfed by issues, everyday riders are feeling the pain.

Brittany Tee, Soomaiiah Quraiishi, and Reina Morales Rojas are among thousands of people thought to be missing from Massachusetts.

How the missing become the uncounted

Inside the government’s flawed approach to finding missing persons.

Two Weeks in America

Two Weeks in America

We sent a dozen journalists on the road across this complex country. They found it’s better than you think.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Hyannis area residents and business owners who rely on the Cape Cod Gateway Airport are at odds over the $22 million proposed expansion of one of the airport’s runways.

Hyannis airport plan hits turbulence

Catherine “Kitty” Burke and Michael Burke, a couple in Southampton who sought to adopt a child.

IDEAS | CARINE HAJJAR

Does Mass. give religious people a fair shot at adoption?

Peso Pluma performed during the MTV Video Music Awards on Sept. 12 at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J.

MARCELA GARCÍA

The scourge of Mexican drug cartels

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, right, with Moms for Liberty founder Tiffany Justice, left, during a town hall meeting at Founders Academy in Manchester, N.H. Sept. 6.

‘What did you learn in school today?’ (asking for a political stakeholder)

US Senator Mitt Romney has long expressed confidence that young people will help rebuke the chaotic populism infecting the GOP.

Utah after Mitt Romney

"This city is special," the author writes, "and Boston, so restrained in emotion, deserves to hear this more often."

IDEAS | OMER AZIZ

My farewell love letter to Boston

Metro

Hispanic Heritage Month

Latinx Heritage Month kicks off with fiesta on City Hall Plaza

The city's Fiesta en La Plaza series features events poetry to salsa, from now until Oct. 14.

Julian Bussgang, entrepreneur who wrote about escaping Poland as a boy during Holocaust, dies at 98

"I have been one of the lucky ones. I survived," Dr. Bussgang wrote in a memoir, in which he included a list of relatives who were killed in the Holocaust.

Plagued with delays, BPS bathroom renovations are creating friction with the state and disruptions for students

The delays have morphed into one of the biggest flashpoints between the state and Boston Public Schools over the pace of district improvement efforts.

Brigham and Women’s doctor works to broaden global access to neurosurgery

Leading experts in brain surgery convened in Boston to discuss bridging international gaps in care.

Sports

After blaming himself for Buffalo's season-opening loss at the Jets, quarterback Josh Allen pointed the way to a victory Sunday over Las Vegas.

Josh Allen puts on a show as Bills rout Raiders, recover from difficult start to season

Allen completed his first 13 attempts for 94 yards, and improved to both 13-4 in games following a loss and 23-4 in games he doesn’t commit a turnover as Buffalo scored the final 24 points.

Bill Belichick.

The Patriots are getting ready for ‘Sunday Night Football’ against the Dolphins. Follow along.

The Globe will be offering live updates and analysis throughout pregame, during the game, and in the aftermath.

Sepp Kuss was on high after winning the Spanish Vuelta in Madrid, completing a Grand Tour sweep this year for the Jumbo-Visma team.

Sepp Kuss puts United States back on cycling map by winning Spanish Vuelta

The 29-year-old from Durango, Colo., is the first Grand Tour winner since Chris Horner earned the Vuelta victory in 2013.

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK

Better together: Co-op comes up clutch for Pentucket, saves Dracut’s seasons

RAVENS 27, BENGALS 24

Lamar Jackson, Ravens have enough to again send Bengals to 0-2 start

Lynx 82, Sun 75

Kayla McBride and Napheesa Collier lead Lynx over Sun to force a deciding Game 3

Business

Could a wave ‘speed bump’ protect coastal communities from storm surge?

Alex Berkowitz's company, Coastal Protection Solutions, is working to build Wavebreakers, structures floating offshore that decrease the height and velocity of destructive waves.

One Congress, Boston’s newest skyscraper, makes its debut

State Street Corp. will eventually occupy 27 floors across the 43-story, 1 million-square-foot skyscraper, and law firm K&L Gates and software company InterSystems will also call the tower home.

Thousands march to kick off climate summit, demanding an end to warming-causing fossil fuels

First two cargo ships arrive in Ukrainian port after Russia’s exit from grain deal

magazine

Hispanic Heritage Month

Honoring 100 change-making leaders across Massachusetts

Mónica Solares, owner of Rincón Guatemalteco in Waltham.

My Boston History

Searching for a taste of home in and around the city

In 2016, El Oriental owner Nobel Garcia poured cider at the news of Fidel Castro’s death.

Marcela García

What does it mean to lose special places where Latinos gather in Boston?

Troops leaving Camp Myles Standish in Taunton for the Boston Port of Embarkation.

My dad never forgot Rosh Hashana at Camp Myles Standish in 1944

metro

Mike Doten and Amy Robb are part of a group of residents of Cloudland Road who persuaded the town of Pomfret to close the road during the height of foliage season.

On one of Vermont’s most idyllic roads, fed-up locals say no more to the leaf peepers

Thousands without power, 1 dead after Atlantic storm Lee pummels New England and Maritime Canada

Atlantic storm Lee delivers high winds, rain before forecasters call off warnings in some areas

sports

Matt Chapman doubled twice on Sunday, the second of which walked off the Sox.

Rafael Devers’s game-tying homer isn’t enough as Red Sox are walked off by Blue Jays again, swept on the road

Was Chaim Bloom’s reshaping of the Red Sox farm system a success?

Game 150: Red Sox at Blue Jays lineups and notes

business

United Auto Workers members attend a rally in Detroit on Friday.

United Auto Workers justifies wage demands by pointing to CEO pay raises. So how high were they?

The battle over electric vehicles is central to the United Auto Workers strike

Sweet news for cranberry growers as India slashes tariffs on the Mass.-grown fruit

politics

President Biden and first lady Jill Biden participated in a blessing ceremony with the Lahaina elders at Moku'ula following wildfires in Lahaina, Hawaii, on Aug. 21. If the president wins reelection, his climate team is likely to try to cut greenhouse gases from steel, cement, and other hard-to-clean-up manufacturing.

Biden to target industrial pollution in a second term, if he gets one

Donald Trump’s GOP rivals try to attract social conservatives in Iowa at an event he skipped

Top Democrats’ bullishness on Biden 2024 collides with voters’ worries

Nation

Sherriff's deputies block off a street where a deputy was shot while in his patrol car in Palmdale, Calif. on Sunday, Sept. 17, 2023.

Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy dies after being shot in his patrol car by an unknown assailant

Trump refuses to say in a TV interview how he watched the Jan. 6 attack unfold at the US Capitol

Texas AG Ken Paxton is back on job after acquittal but Republicans aren’t done attacking each other

World

People mourn in front of the body of a victim killed in an earthquake in Moulay Brahim, Al Haouz province, on September 9, 2023.

See photos and videos from devastating earthquake that struck Morocco

UN committee votes to list ruins near ancient Jericho as a World Heritage Site in Palestine

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on his way home after concluding a trip to Russia’s Far East

opinion

Peso Pluma performed during the MTV Video Music Awards on Sept. 12 at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J.

The scourge of Mexican drug cartels

Searching for Black Muslims

Massachusetts tax relief can’t wait

lifestyle

Is it too soon to have another child?

She was my first date after a long marriage

A parent’s coping guide for back-to-school teen anxiety

food & dining

Harvest time at the the A.D. Makepeace Company, a cranberry grower in Carver, Mass., on Oct. 19, 2018.

Sweet news for cranberry growers as India slashes tariffs on the Mass.-grown fruit

Restaurants in R.I., Maine, still struggle to find workers

Citing sustainability, Starbucks wants to overhaul its iconic cup. Will customers go along?

travel

Edward Tufte’s Rocket Science 3, is a full-size, fully-equipped airstream with operating lights.

Falling for Woodbury, ‘the most charming small town in Connecticut’

These maps show when foliage will peak in New England — and across the country

Where to find foliage trackers for each New England state

Arts

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, "Charting Your Course Through Life," 1940.

At this Harvard exhibition, the maps are real but the places on them aren’t

Harvard museum director stepping down

At Abakus Projects, a show that asks: How compatible are efficiency and humanity?

Books

A lament for a vanishing paradise, through the 300-year history of one plot of land

Test yourself to see how well you know your New England campus novels

Local bestsellers for the week ended Sept. 10

Movies

Sylvester Stallone in "Sly"

After seeing 20-plus films in six days, our critic shares some final highlights from this year’s TIFF

Drew Barrymore stalking suspect trespasses at fashion show looking for Emma Watson, police say

‘Scrapper’: A tender tale about a kid with serious mettle

Television

Drew Barrymore attends the Time100 Gala at Frederick P. Rose Hall, on April 26, in New York.

Drew Barrymore and ‘The Talk’ postpone their daytime talk shows until after the Hollywood strikes

Trump refuses to say in a TV interview how he watched the Jan. 6 attack unfold at the US Capitol

Milli Vanilli documentary revisits a sad scandal

music

Sammy Rae & The Friends will return to Roadrunner on Sept. 21.

Sammy Rae & The Friends spread love and care to each other and their fans

Charles Gayle, saxophonist of fire and brimstone, dies at 84

‘Madama Butterfly’ is a poignant American tragedy at Boston Lyric Opera

Theater/Dance

From left: Carly Zien, Amy Resnick, Will Lyman, and Joshua Chessin-Yudin in "Prayer for the French Republic" at the Huntington.

In the Huntington’s ‘Prayer for the French Republic,’ antisemitism hits home, again

In ART’s ‘Half-God of Rainfall,’ a storm is brewing

In ‘POTUS,’ the West Wing is nothing like ‘The West Wing’

Health

Boston, MA 10/7/2021: Exterior of Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, MA on October 07, 2021. (Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff) ( Exteriors of Dana Farber Cancer Institute for story about: Boston’s top cancer hospital had stood out nationally for encouraging its trustees to invest in its start-up companies, including even running them.) COVID-19 coronavirus

Dana-Farber deal highlights a surprising trend: New cancer centers are in vogue

Your health insurance costs are likely going up in R.I. next year. Here’s by how much.

CVS, Walgreens illegally marketed ‘unapproved’ eye drops, FDA says

Obituaries

Julian Bussgang and his wife, Fay, at the 2011 ceremony at the Polish consulate in New York City when then-President Bronislaw Komorowski presented Dr. Bussgang with Poland's Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit.

Julian Bussgang, entrepreneur who wrote about escaping Poland as a boy during Holocaust, dies at 98

Charles Gayle, saxophonist of fire and brimstone, dies at 84

Lauch Faircloth dies at 95; GOP senator targeted D.C. home rule in crisis